Alternatives to Amazon

In recent years Amazon has grown significantly, spreading its tendrils from e-commerce to cloud hosting, advertising and so much more.

Boom builds behemoth

As a part of that, the company has seen exponential gains in its valuation, becoming one of the biggest companies in the world. Jeff Bezos has also secured the title of richest person in the world by a fair margin.

So what does one do if they are concerned about directly supporting the exploitation of underpaid workers whilst simultaneously enabling a corporate behemoth that has set its sights on so many industries that the list of those which it does not participate in would be more compact?

Alternatives to Amazon

Provided below are a list of potential alternatives to consider when utilizing Amazon’s services if the aforementioned issues are of concern. Voting with one’s money may be the most effective way to bring about change.

I have no direct or indirect interest financially or otherwise in Amazon or any of the other aforementioned companies. This article is purely for informational purposes to help provide alternatives to Amazon.

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Thought-provocation

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”